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2023

Towards Sustainable and Massive Deployment of Photovoltaics: The Nexus of Socio-Economic and Technological Challenges

Source/Author: Chiara Busto (Eni), Chiara Candelise (Imperial College London, Bocconi University), Silvia Caneva (WIP Renewable Energies), Duygu Celik (WIP Renewable Energies) Alessia Cornella (Eurac Research), Letizia Bua (Eni), Edouard Breniaux (Carnot Institute Chimie Balard Cirimat), Nouha Gazbour (CEA), Ivan Gordon (imec), Wander Jager (University College Groningen), Rudolf Kapeller (Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz), Gokhan Kirkil (Kadir Has University), Paola Mazzucchelli (Circe), Osbel Almora Rodríguez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Marcello Passaro (Sunzest Solar), Alessandro Sciullo (University of Turin), Sebastien Lizin (UHasselt), Alessandro Martulli (UHasselt), Atse Louwen (Eurac Research)

The experts of the Social PV Working Group of the ETIP PV with contributions from the Reliability and Circularity Working Group developed this publication. The white paper provides a set of recommendations to increase support, fund rese...

The experts of the Social PV Working Group of the ETIP PV with contributions from the Reliability and Circularity Working Group developed this publication. The white paper provides a set of recommendations to increase support, fund research and innovation, and engage with stakeholders and policymakers.

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Blockchain for Energy Democracy

Source/Author: Silvia Caneva

The aim of this paper is to highlight use cases where, through blockchains, citizens can actively participate in the energy market. Citizens can participate in the energy market either as consumers or as prosumers. Prosumers are defined ...

The aim of this paper is to highlight use cases where, through blockchains, citizens can actively participate in the energy market. Citizens can participate in the energy market either as consumers or as prosumers. Prosumers are defined as users acting both as a producers and consumers of energy. The focus in this paper will be on consumers, rather than prosumers, and on approaches that will be able to lead to a positive social-environmental impact in the life of consumers.

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DIALOGUES Project – Integrated Research White Paper

Source/Author: Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu, Muhittin Hakan Demir, Berfu Solak, Ugur Turan, Garance Clément, Marlyne Sahakian, Andrea Kollmann, Dina Musina, Karl-Ludwig Schibel

This report encompasses an assessment of interdisciplinary terminology, incl. a glossary, the definition of ‘energy citizenship’, specific research questions to be challenged by the Integrated Consensus Paper, discipline-wise theoret...

This report encompasses an assessment of interdisciplinary terminology, incl. a glossary, the definition of ‘energy citizenship’, specific research questions to be challenged by the Integrated Consensus Paper, discipline-wise theoretical framework for the research questions, discipline-wise best practice methodology for addressing the research question and a discussion of contradictions and consensus between disciplines along the theoretical/methodological dimensions.

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DIALOGUES Project – Comprehensive, interdisciplinary report on energy citizenship

Source/Author: Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu, Muhittin Hakan Demir, Berfu Solak, Ugur Turan, Garance Clément, Marlyne Sahakian, Andrea Kollmann, Dina Musina, Cecilia Trenti, Mariam Santoro, Karl-Ludwig Schibel, Chiara Massullo, Barbara Cardone, Giuseppe Carrus, Victoria Bogdanova Lily Yakova, Gergana Tzvetkova, Radostina Primova

This report provides an interdisciplinary assessment of the current state of literature in the field of energy citizenship.

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Co-designing an interactive data platform for contextualizing the role of citizens on energy and low-carbon transitions

Source/Author: Georgios Xexakis, Georgia Polutanou, Özge Okur, Ellen Minkman, Sarpong Hammond Antwi, Jenny Lieu, BinBin Pearce

Citizens are expected to play a significant role to the current energy transition in Europe, such as through prosumerism and collective initiatives for energy efficiency. While there are many platforms for domestic energy analytics and f...

Citizens are expected to play a significant role to the current energy transition in Europe, such as through prosumerism and collective initiatives for energy efficiency. While there are many platforms for domestic energy analytics and for engaging citizens and transition stakeholders on energy topics, context-specific information is frequently lacking. This article outlines the development of an Interactive Policy Platform that aims to provide contextualized, impact-driven, and ready-to-use information on the role of citizen initiatives in the energy and low-carbon transition in Europe. Specifically, it will help researchers, policymakers, and citizens to explore different dimensions of energy citizenship, understand the decarbonization potentials of diverse clusters of citizens, and identify the conditions under which citizen-led energy initiatives are currently operating. The Platform will be co-designed together with a sample of its future users, ensuring the usability of its interface and the relevance of the provided information. Ultimately, the Platform is envisioned to help transition stakeholders understand and support initiatives related to energy citizenship around Europe, thus contributing to the EU’s promise of a just and inclusive decarbonization.

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ENCLUDE – Summary of Collective Actions

Source/Author: Djinlev, V., Pearce, B.

Analyzing two collective actions from the United States—the civil rights movement and the fall of the tobacco industry—brings valuable insights that may be applied to the energy transition context. More specifically, the two case stu...

Analyzing two collective actions from the United States—the civil rights movement and the fall of the tobacco industry—brings valuable insights that may be applied to the energy transition context. More specifically, the two case studies show the different transformation pathways through which change happens at a large scale. These collective actions are also centered around different resources – cigarettes as a tangible product, and justice as a non-tangible resource. As the energy transition has elements from both collective actions, the insights from the analysis may be related not only to the use of technology and the related practices but also to the justice elements found within the changes that need to be carried out in the future.

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Model adjustments and modifications to match emerging energy citizenship trends and patterns

Source/Author: Ilias Tsopelas, Vassilis Stavrakas, Alexandros Flamos

In the transition to a state of net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, citizens are supposed to play a much larger role, including as self-consumers and participants in energy communities. As a result of this increasingly participatory ...

In the transition to a state of net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, citizens are supposed to play a much larger role, including as self-consumers and participants in energy communities. As a result of this increasingly participatory role of citizens in the energy system, the new concept of energy citizenship has emerged in recent years. Around this term, we can also find emerging trends/ patterns that can relate to: (i.) the active participation in the energy market, such as the concept of prosumerism, smart technologies, etc., (ii.) behavioral attributes of citizens, (iii.) individual lifestyle changes, (iv.) collective initiatives and expressions of energy citizenship, and (v.) political activities.

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Report on qualified clustering input attributes

Source/Author: Naderian, S

This report captures the results of an extensive literature review of studies that cluster citizens regarding their energy/environmental behaviors. The report maps the factors that might be used in the literature to create clusters for d...

This report captures the results of an extensive literature review of studies that cluster citizens regarding their energy/environmental behaviors. The report maps the factors that might be used in the literature to create clusters for decarbonization under the work of WP4. Outputs of the review are presented at two levels: individual and collective. At an individual level, major variables for clustering energy behaviors were categorized as socio-economic and demographic, psychological, energy consumption/environmental patterns across different areas of life (housing, transport, etc.), and other contextual variables. At a collective level, major variables were categorized as socio-economic and demographic, energy infrastructure variables, energy consumption profiles, environmental performance, and other contextual factors.

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Report on intersectional analysis of emerging examples of energy citizenship

Source/Author: Niall P. Dunphy, Breffní Lennon, Lauren Quinlivan, Alexandra Revez, Michael Brenner- Fließer

This deliverable presents a treatment of existing and emerging ideas of citizenship in the energy system and around energy more generally. An analysis of modes of (citizen) participation and related manifestations of energy citizenship i...

This deliverable presents a treatment of existing and emerging ideas of citizenship in the energy system and around energy more generally. An analysis of modes of (citizen) participation and related manifestations of energy citizenship is forwarded. This report – the first of two on characterizing and (re)conceptualizing expressions of energy citizenship – will both contribute to the ongoing discourse on the place of the citizen in the energy domain, and feed into the development of an energy citizenship typology to be presented in the second report from this package of work. Acknowledging that privilege(s) shape the type of relationships particular individuals and groups might have with energy, this report opens a discussion on the type(s) of energy citizenship experienced by those at the margins. In this way, an understanding of multiple (sometime overlapping) expressions of citizenship around energy is forwarded. This report will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners interesting in transforming the currently energy system (and its implications) for the way we live our lives.

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Conceptual framework energy citizenship

Source/Author: Bonno Pel, Ariane Debourdeau, René Kemp, Adina Dumitru, Martina Schäfer, Edina Vadovics, Frances Fahy, Aurore Fransolet, and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin

This deliverable describes the conceptual framework on energy citizenship. It lays down the key definitions, theoretical underpinnings and social constructions of the required systematic energy citizenship understanding. The conceptual f...

This deliverable describes the conceptual framework on energy citizenship. It lays down the key definitions, theoretical underpinnings and social constructions of the required systematic energy citizenship understanding. The conceptual framework discloses the diversity of more and less ‘active’ energy citizenship forms, identifying the main distinctions brought forward in the state-of-the-art of social innovation and transitions, political science, sociology, energy studies, social psychology, geography and critical social theory. This also involves elaboration of the different understandings of the energy systems that energy citizenship can be taken to refer to.

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Project GRETA’s Case Studies

Source/Author: Danila Longo, Luise Schlindwein, Lurian Klein, Izaskun Jimenez, Lucía Polo, Eguzkiñe Saenz de Zaitegui, Dr. Anne Kantel, Dr. Sabine Preuß, Maria Stadler, Dr. Carlos Montalvo

Project GRETA is studying energy communities in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Citizens in these communities will adopt renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, monitor their efficient energy behaviours...

Project GRETA is studying energy communities in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Citizens in these communities will adopt renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, monitor their efficient energy behaviours, and participate in the sustainable planning of mobility.

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Interdisciplinary understanding of energy citizenship

Source/Author: Hamann, K.R.S., Bertel, M.P., Ryszawska, B., Lurger, B., Szymanski, P., Rozwadowska, M., Goedkoop, F.

Energy Citizenship as a Viable Concept: An Interdisciplinary Understanding to Unfold the Potential of Legal, Economic, and Psychological Perspectives on the Citizenship-Based Energy Transition

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